Book Review: Ecology of New England In his book, Changes in the Land, William Cronon explores the relationship between the Europeans and the indigenous Indian populations and the local ecologies in the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. In the preface Cronon states that, “the shift from Indian to European domination in New England entailed important changes—well known to historians—in the ways these people organized their lives, but also involved fundamental reorganizations—less well …showed first 75 words of 880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 880 total…the book (such as how the Indians roamed the land and burned it never saying in the same place for a long time, and how the Americans built fenced in houses and planted fields of crops)… I never knew how completely different the two groups were and how our lives could have been so different and so simple. Could it have been that we would not only be concerned with our looks and material possessions?